For two days last week, audiences at Moscow’s Gogol Centre theatre were served up an age-old question: “Just who in Russia has a happy life?” In common with the rest of the theatre’s repertoire, Nikolai Nekrasov’s 1869 classic came with a bohemian workaround. The 2018 version had rap music, contemporary dance scenes, sex and fairly gratuitous nudity. But the gist of the tale
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trial-putin-serebrennikov-absurd-a8696486.html
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https://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/175125
https://day.kyiv.ua/ru/blog/obshchestvo/nostalgiya-po-imperii
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Russlands Stardompteur Edgard Sapaschny macht Front gegen die hohe Präsenz des kanadischen Cirque du Soleil.
http://www.fr.de/panorama/russland-zirkuskrieg-in-moskau-a-1640591
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